Century 21 Exhibit
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Century 21 Exhibit
Seattle’s World FairApril 21-October 21, 1962
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Putting the Century 21 in Context
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JFK opens the Fair
• Used the same Gold Key that opened the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
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Attendance
• Over 10 million people came to the Fair!
• In addition, it was financially successful, which doesn’t usually happen at Expos!
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An overview of the Fair
• Video Produced by Bell Telephone
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Architecture
• Almost everything was designed by local architects.
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Celebrities at the Fair
• ELVIS!!!!! ( I swoon)• Igor Stravinsky (I swoon even more)• Ella Fitzgerald (Somebody get the
smelling salts.)• John Wayne (I didn’t swoon, he
knocked me out.)• Cosmonaut Gherman Titov• Astronaut John Glenn
(It was lack of oxygen, I swear!)
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Other Interesting Things